Shoe-blacking machine.



I. J. WEIGLE. SHOE BLACKING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION- FILED JULY 2. 1909;

Patented Feb. 7, 1911.

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v SHOE BLAGKING MACHINE.

AIPLIGATION FILED JULY 2, 1909.

Patented Feb. 7, 1911 arbor/e1 9 UNLED STATES PATENT canton.

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SHOE-BLACKING MACHINE.

Application filed july 2., 1909. Serial No. 505,688.

To all whom it mayconcem:

Beit known that I, IRVEN J. Wmonn, a citizen of the United States. residing at St. Marys. in" the county of Ell: and State 'of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful shoe Blacking Machine of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements .in shoe blacking machines and. relates more particularly to e. machine which. automatic infichar acter even to the proper presentation of the footwear to be blackened to the means for applying the hlacking and for polishing the same after application.

It is the object of the present invention". to provide a mechanismespecially adapted for use in connection with a coin-controlled lock so that the operator has but to place' the foot in position in the'machine and then set the machine in operation after which the foot is moved automatically into position to receive blacking on the shoe or other foot covering and to then be subjected to the polishing action of suitable brushes or buifers. after which thefoot is returned to the initial position and may then be withdrawn fromthe machine.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detail description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a. part of this specification in which drawings-- Figure is an elevationof the machine with a part of the casing removed. Fig.1. 2

1s a plan View of the machine with the top of the casing removed.Fig. 3 is an elevation at right angles to that of 1 1g; 1 with the driving motor removed and the motor shaft shown in section.

Fig. dis a detail section ofmpolishing drum used in a machine. 'Figvds a. detail of adjacent parts. ofthe foot rest and feed screw therefor.

Referring to the drawings there is shown a casing 1 of suitable shape and capacity tov house the various working parts of the machine. Within the casing there is lodged an electric motor 2 of any suitable type and which therefore need not be described in detail. It is designed' that this motor. shall be cut into and out of circuit by means controlled by a suitable coin. The present in vention does notinclude any particular type of coin controlled mechanism and any suit able knowntype of such mechanism. may be employedL- For this reason the coinconspecification of Letters Patent.

Patented trolled side of the machine has been omitted from the drawings.

The shaft of the motor 2 carries a pinion 3 meshing with two gear wheels 45 and The gear wheel 4. is mounted on one end oi. a shaft 6 having appropriate. journal bearin s 7 and this shaft carries three worms 8, 1 10 appropriately spaced for purposes which will hereinafter appear. The inter mediate Worm, which is the worm 9, meshes with a worm gear 11 upon a shaft 12 having.

suitableljournal bearings. 13 on the bottom of the casing 1, said shaft extending along the casing in a direction at right angles to] and belowthe shaft 6. The shaft 12 for the greater portion of its length is provided with long pitch screw grooves 14, there being two such groo. es of like character in reverse on der on the shaft and these grooves are joined I at the ends so that a pin or stud 14; engaging;

one of the grooves 14 willv be fed along the length of thy; shaft and then entering the second groove will be returned by the latter to the starting point. i

On the bottom of the casing on opposite sides of the vertical longitudinal plane of the shaft ,12 are guide strips 15 in which engage a carriage 16 from the ends of which rise standardslhf supporting a foot rest 18. Thiscai'riage is provided. with a. pin or' stud. or projection ch nging in the grooves il-it so that upon rotative increment of the shaft 12 the carriage will be fed along said shaft for an appropriate distance and. will. then ,be returned to the initial position. The rear standards 1.7 of the carriage are provided to the worms 8 and. if) are upright shafts 20 provided with bearings 2i in the botttnn and at the top '01 the casing, Each shaft 20 carriesa worm gear 2" in n'lesh with the worm I 8 or 10, the shafts be; 11g arranged in pairs,

two of them having the worm gears 22 in mesh with the single worm 8 and the other shafts lnwing their gears 22 in mesh with the worm 10.

At an appropriate dlstance above the worm god?! 522 each sha ft 520 carries 'a butter 23 of feltsor bristles or any appropriate sub stance and this buffer is of "such size and "so ,locatedthat persons foot upon the foot rest 18 will pass between and be engaged by the four butters 23 upon the several shafts 20.

I Secured at appropriate points to the top of the casing l are hangers 24: carrying at their lower ends elastic strips 25, these strips being preferably in the form of light steel strips each longitudinally slotted as indicated at 26 where they are secured to the hangers 24 by headed studs 27 'or otherwise. The hangers 24 are arranged in pairs so that the strips 25 are parallel with the shaft 12 but on the sides of the butters 23 remote from the foot support 18. Each band 25 carries blacking containers .28 normally out of contact with the corresponding portions of the buffers 23 butcapable of being moved into contact with these buffers so that blacking will be transferred from the box or container 28 to the corresponding buffer 23. I

At a point about midway of the length of eaehstrip 25 there is located one end of a lever 29 pivoted upon a post 30 rising frorn the base of the casing 1 and the other end of this lever iscarried to a point within the path of one of the ledges 19 on the rear standards 17 of the carriage 16. Thestruo ture of these parts is such that. when the foot rest is moved forward from its normal position and just as it reaches its forward position. the ledges 19 will engage the re spective'ends of the levers 29 and move the same in a direction which will cause the movement of the elastic strips 25 toward the buffers 23 and so cause a transfer of blaclo ing thereto which by the rotativo movement of the buffers is transferred to the shoe incasing the foot upon the foot rest.

Thegear'wheelfi is mounted on a shaft 31 carried by hanging bearings 32 secured tott-he'top of the casing. Mounted on this shaft is a polishin drum 33 best shownin normally maintained separated by a spring 36 surrounding the shaft 31 and tcn'dingto' force the heads one away from the other until this movement is arrested by fixed collars 37 upon the shaft 31. The drum 33 is constrained to rotate with the shaft 3]. by key ways 38 in the heads fi l engaging a spline 39 on said shaft 31.

In operative relation to the periphery of the drum 33 is a box or container -10. There is secured to the top of the casing an elastiC and preferably a steel strip 41 by screws or headed studs 42 extending tln'ough elongatedslots 4.3 in the ends of the strip $1. and this strip carries the box or container designed to receive blacking.

Pivoted' to the top of the casing is an angle lever 44 having one end in operative relation to about the middle portion of the strip 41 and the other end provided with an angle extension 45 in the'path of the front cnd of the foot rest 18 and adapted to ho engaged by tholatter just before it. reaches its forward position.

Let it be assumed that a person wi hing his shoes or other footwear blaclten t and polished places the foot upon the foot rest 18 and then causes the motor'Z to start in operation in any suitable manner as by the dropping of an appropriate coin into a suit able coin-controlled lock In turn controlling the motor, then the motor starts in operation and through the pinion 3 and the wheels at and 5 causes the shafts 6 and ol "to-rotate in the proper direction. The shafts 6 and 31 cause rotative movement of the buifers 23 and drum 33in appropriate direct'ions and at thesarne time the shaft 122 rotated in the direction causing the for-- ward niovcn'ient of the foot rest 18 between the buffers. 23 which latter serveto clean the shoe from dust and dirt. Before the foot rest has traveled very far the toe of the Shoe is brought into engagement with the drum 33-and the latter is so situated as to be engaged bythe toe of the shoe in a manner to put a longitudinal strain upon the web 35 thus drawing the heads toward each other and further compre a the spring 36. This will cause the web to move over the toe portion ot' the shoe J and down the sides of the same partially embracing the shoe and removing any cling ing dust that may be thereon. is the foot brought into contactw-ith the respective butlfers Q23 and drum 33 and blocking is thereby transferred to these parts to be inn medlately afterward transferred to the shoe being ta'calcd. The application of blaclcingv takes but a small portion of the time during which the shoe is under treatment and then while the foot rest is moving back toward the initial position the butters Q2 and the drum 33 act as burnishing elements for the blocking already applied.

if the two members of the screw grooves 14: he of the same pilch. the foot rest 18 will be fed forward and barkwari'l at the same rate. It is, however, i'pasible to make these groove 1uc1nbcrs of dili'crcnt pitch so that the foot rest will be fediorwariil a; a coniparativctv quick rate and retracted at a slower rate thus subjecting the shoe toa lmiger period of burnishing than to the cleaning and hlacking applying operations. The top of the casing i may be provided with a suitable slot or opening l6 for the introduction of the Foot into the machine.

\Vhilc the term blocking has been used in this case in its ordinary signification it is to vbe understood as including any shoe poll (to a motor and connections therefrom to theishing nmterial whether the saine be black,

or white, or colored.

-What 1s claimed 1s:

1. In a shoe blocking machine, a foot rest, a forward andretnrn actuating means there for, rotatable brushes in operative relation to the foot rest, a rotatable, yielding drum in the path of the toe and of the foot rest,

brushes, drum and foot rest a'ctrating means for driving them, blacking con ainers in op-.

erative relation to the brushesv and drum, and members connected to the blacking containers and projecting into the path of the foot rest and. adapted to be 'engaed and actuated by the latter-to more the lacking containers into engagement with the brushes and drum.

2- In a shoe blanking machine, a foot rest,

m forwarrl and return'actnating means there for", rotatable brushes .in operative relation to the fdht crest, a rotatable, yielding drum in the path ofthe toe end of the foot rest, a motor and connections therefromwto the brushes, 'clrln'n and foot restaotuating means forflrrtmg them, blocking containers m op- ,jerative relation tothe brushes and drum,

and members connected to the'blacking containers and projecting into the path of the foot rest and adapted to be actu'ated'by the latter at the forward limit of its travel to move the blacking containers into engagement with the brushes and drum.

3. In a shoe blacking machine, a recipro- 'cator'y foot rest, rotatable brushes in operative relation to thefootrest, blanking containers in operative relation to the brushes,

members connected to the blocking-containers and projecting into the bath of the foot rest and actuated thereby to move the blacking containers into engagement with the brushes. T a

4. Ina shoe blanking machine, a reciprocatoryfoot rest, rotatable polishing means in operative relation to the foot rest, blackingcontainers in o erativerelation to the -saitl' rotatable polis ing means, and members connected to the blacking containers ancl projecting into the path of the foot rest at the forward limit of its travel, and actuv,5 ated bysaid foot rest to move'theblaeking I 

